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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                 Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States

                                            DOCUMENT  FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                          been approved for public release.


Matter of:  Strategic Resources, Inc.

File:       B-418928

Date:       October 21, 2020

Douglas C. Proxmire, Esq., Chelsea B. Knudson, Esq., and Taylor A. Hillman, Esq.,
Venable, LLP, for the protester.
Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP, for Abacus Technology Corporation, the intervenor.
Debra J. Talley, Esq., and Gwendolyn T.D. Franks, Esq., Department of the Army, for
the agency.
John Sorrenti, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that agency's evaluation of protester's proposal and best-value determination
were unreasonable is denied where record shows that the evaluation was reasonable
and consistent with the solicitation.
DECISION

Strategic Resources, Inc. (SRI), of McLean, Virginia, protests the issuance of a task
order to Abacus Technology Corporation (Abacus), of Chevy Chase, Maryland, under a
task order request for proposals (TOPR), issued by the Department of the Army, Army
Materiel Command, for command,  control, communication, and computer information
technology (C4/IT) enterprise management services. SRI protests that the agency's
evaluation was unreasonable and failed to assess a number of strengths to SRI's
technical proposal, and that the agency conducted an unreasonable best-value
determination.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The agency issued the TOPR pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 16.5,
to holders of the Army's information management communications services III multiple-
award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts. Agency Report (AR),

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